Corset



(No Model.)

4G.P.ALLEN. Corset.

Patented Nov. 16,1880.

MPUERS, PHOTOLITHOGRAPHER, WASHINGTON. D C,

UNrTEe raras ATENI Erica.

CHAUNCEY F. ALLEN, OF WATERBURY, CONNECTICUT.

CORSET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 234,380, dated November 16, 1880. Application filed April 15, 1880. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHAUNCEY F. ALLEN,

of Waterbury, New Haven county, Connectiout, have invented an Improvement in Corsets, of which the following is the specification.

My invention relates to that class of corsets in which superficial wings or flaps are used to impart stiffness to the body, and constituting an improvement on that patented to me July 20, 1880. Such corsets heretofore made have been provided with wings secured each to the body at one edge by stitching, the other edge being free and provided with fastening devices.

In the drawings I have represented a corset in which I secure a like result, but produce a neater article than in the manner above described, the wings being secured at both edges to the body of the corset, stiffening the latter vertically, so as to prevent it from wrinkling or creeping upward without interfering with the flexibility and nice fitting of the body portion.

In Figure l of the drawings I have represented a corset the body of which is constructed in any suitable form; but I prefer to make the side sections with vertical cords or with very light bones, or to dispense with boning and cording, using one or more central bones along the line A.

Over each side section extends the wing or flap B, which is sewed along each edge a, or otherwise secured in or to the body atthe edges, but is elsewhere loose. These wings may be stiffened by bones, cords, by hair-cloth or quilting; but I prefer to fold and stitch the same so as to form series of parallel tucks .9, running diagonally from each side toward the center.

I thus form parallel thickened ribs, which, when starched and pressed, will add materially to the stiffness of the corset without imparting undue rigidity.

()ne mode of folding is shown in Fig. 2,

where each fold is secured by a single row of to maintain the stiffness of the under-arm portion, while there are no ribs or projections likely to abrade the body. This arrangement furthermore leaves the hip portion flexible.

It will be apparent that the plaited or tucked superposed wings may be arranged at any point where it is necessary to stiffen the corset, and that the central boned portion, A, may be dispensed with.

I elain1 1. The combination, with the body portion of the corset, of an overlying stiffened portion secured to the body along the opposite edges, 00 a, substantially as set forth.

2. The overlying portions B, plaited or folded and combined with the body of the corset, substantially as set forth.

The combination, with the under-arm portion, of the overlying portions B B, having diagonal plaits and secured along the opposite edges to the body, substantially as specified.

ln testimonywhereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

CHAUNCEY F. ALLEN.

Witnesses:

G. T. THOMAS, SULLIVAN S. DAVIS. 

